A Giant's Tale, Part Two: An International Sensation of Prodigious Proportions
by Clifton Bertram Across the Medicine Line: Tales From the 49 th Parallel. The articles in ‘Across the Medicine Line’ are written in hopes of learning more about how North America came to be. How our peoples lived, ate, drank, travelled, loved, fought and thought during the time between the discovery, founding and solidification of our long partnership and our current society. We believe that learning these stories can further strengthen the many ties that bind our two nations and better understand – or even heal! -- the divisions that still separate us. In Part One, we explored Charles Freeman’s upbringing in Middlesex County, Ontario in the early part of the 19 th century. We followed him from his unremarkable birth in Smoke Hollow to his growth into a young man of prodigious size, and his discovery by bare-knuckle boxer Ben Caunt. That alliance would grow into a partnership as they toured North America, becoming a fixture on the circuit of spectacles that inclu...